Blackwill is front-runner for U.S. envoy

WASHINGTON, MARCH 19. Mr. Robert D. Blackwill, a career diplomat and nuclear non-proliferation expert, has emerged as a front- runner for the post of U.S. ambassador to New Delhi.

While Mr Blackwill's office in Harvard University declined to confirm the appointment, diplomatic sources here said he was among the front-runners for the post.

Mr. Blackwill, who served as a senior foreign policy adviser for the President, Mr. George W. Bush's presidential campaign, is the Belfer lecturer in international security at Harvard University's John F. Kennedy School of Government and teaches foreign and defence policy and qualitative public policy analysis.

- UNI

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